Another CW forum that I have seen assigned ranks to all of its members, apparently based solely on the number of postings that they made. I don't think that that is a very good idea, either.

You're right, TD, it's not. I've been in a couple of forums that did that and you can run into a problem with folks just posting quick posts or nonsensical posts just to up their post count in order to reach a particular rank.

Javal, I'm to blame for the recent deal with mana. I wrote in the "the man called stonewall" thread:

Hellcat wrote:Top right of the page. Rate Topic. About as close as you'll get to a like button. Unless you mean people. In which case that's the mana button beside their screen name and avatar. Though javal has said that didn't work as he wanted it to.